...r, he found rather dull than otherwise, the performance being indebted, he thought, for its main interest to the personal character of the actors, who played respectably for amateurs, but not well. Dickens was not at home in the leading part, as stateliness sits ill upon him; but he shone in the scene where, as a bookseller in disguise, he tempts the virtue of a poor author. In the afterpiece, howev...